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'Coalition Government has always been successful', Rawat said. (Photo: File)

Congress will decide new PM after LS polls results: Harish Rawat

DMK president MK Stalin and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav had batted for Gandhi as a prime ministerial candidate.

06 May 2019 8:55 AM

The exact reason behind her death is still unknown. (Photo: Representational)

Differently abled NEET candidate dies while returning home in Tamil Nadu

Santhya, a resident of Abirami area of Ramanathapuram district, appeared for NEET at a private school.

06 May 2019 8:36 AM

'He came to power in 2014 seeking votes to clean the Ganga, but he will go in 2019 with the Rafale taint,' Sidhu said, referring to the allegations levelled by his party against PM Modi on the multi-billion fighter jet deal. (Photo: File)

PM Modi thinks before 2014, there was no India: Navjot Singh Sidhu

Canvassing votes for the party's New Delhi candidate Ajay Maken, Sidhu held a roadshow in Delhi.

06 May 2019 8:31 AM

'He has been sent to judicial custody for two days and will be released by May 7,' accused's lawyer said. (Photo: File)

Man who slapped Kejriwal sent to 2-day judicial custody

On Saturday, Kejriwal was slapped in west Delhi's Moti Nagar area while doing his poll campaigning.

06 May 2019 8:29 AM

Gadkari claimed that what the Congress could not do in 50 years, the BJP had done in five years. (Photo: File)

Not a PM candidate, Modi to continue at top post: Nitin Gadkari

Gadkari said, 'The BJP will win more seats than the 2014 general election and Narendra Modi will again be the prime minister.'

06 May 2019 7:49 AM

A man Sunday alleged that his wife was served a bowl of soup that contained a blood-stained cotton swab in Jehangir Hospital in the city, where she delivered a baby. The soup was made in the canteen of the hospital, he said.(Photo: Representational | AP)

‘Blood-stained’ cotton swab found in patient’s soup in Pune

He added that while a bowl of soup was given to his wife, he saw something in the soup and removed it immediately.

06 May 2019 7:41 AM

Campaigning for her in Old Seemapuri area of East Delhi, he claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to send poor children to Ayodhya due to Hindu-Muslim politics. (Photo: File)

Choose a leader who sends your kids to Oxford not Ayodhya: Jignesh Mevani

'Make that person victorious who can become your voice, not someone whom you are not even able to meet,' Jignesh Mevani said.

06 May 2019 7:34 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted and urged people to come out in large numbers to vote. (Photo: File)

'Vote is most effective way to enrich our democracy': PM Modi

Modi tweeted, 'Requesting all those voting in today's fifth phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections to do so in large numbers'.

06 May 2019 7:18 AM

TMC workers said, 'I was attacked by TMC goons who have been brought from outside.' (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

2019 LS polls: Phase 5 concludes, total voter turnout comes to 62.56 pc

40.56 per cent voter turnout till 1:30 pm, reported Election Commission of India.

06 May 2019 7:05 AM

The first, second and third phases of the Lok Sabha polls held on April 11, 18 and 23 witnessed a turnout of 69.43 per cent, 69.44 per cent, and 68.4 per cent respectively. (Representational Image)

51 seats, 7 states; Nation gears up for Phase 5 of 2019 Lok Sabha polls

Key constituencies of this phase that would hit headlines are Rae Bareli and Amethi as mother-son duo will take on other contenders.

06 May 2019 6:56 AM

‘Raids in Arunachal politically motivated’

The group accused that at least a dozen masked policemen raided several houses at Laggi Gamlin village without identifying themselves.

06 May 2019 4:37 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: File)

BJP says Congress ‘dynasts’ are afraid of truth

Union minister Prakash Javadekar justified Mr Modi’s remark and said the late Prime Minister had “justified”.

06 May 2019 3:24 AM

Hindutva, development are synonymous: Sadhvi Pragya

Pragya said her rival candidate Digvijay Singh of the Congress was one of the main proponents of “saffron terror”.

06 May 2019 3:22 AM

The CSIR director said the MoU will also help in development of international standardised terminologies (disease-morbidity codes) in ayurveda, siddha and unani. (Representational image)

Govt, CSIR pact on ayurveda research

CSIR labs have already produced anti-diabetic drug BGR-34

06 May 2019 3:18 AM

The new more liberal visa regime provides for increased length of stay, number of visits allowed and flexibility in undertaking various activities. (Representational image: File)

5-fold hike in issuance of e-visas by India

The provision for internship visa has also been liberalised as earlier, it was given only after graduation or completion of study.

06 May 2019 2:26 AM

Motorcycles lie on a street in Puri after Cyclone Fani hit Odisha on Friday. (Photo: AP)

Vital services restored in Odisha

Flight operations to Bhubaneswar also resumed on Saturday.

06 May 2019 2:23 AM

Raising the big concern

While this is not the first time that the mosque has faced a threat, heritage architects decode the situations’s gravity.

06 May 2019 2:19 AM

People offer funeral prayers for the BJP state vice-president Ghulam Mohammad Mir in Veerinag area of Anantnag district on Sunday. Mir was killed by suspected militants. (Photo: PTI)

J-K governor orders probe into killing of top BJP leader

Militants, besides fighting the security forces, target political or social activists in the state.

06 May 2019 2:17 AM

All Flying Officer rank in 1971: Sunith Francis Soares, Anup Kumar Shyam, P M “Velu” Velankar, Ashok Bhagwat, and the late Vishwanath Pasupathy

A legendary moment

A 50-yr- old photograph of five veteran IAF pilots, known as Hell’s Angels, was recently recreated by a bike company.

06 May 2019 2:07 AM

UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi (Photo: PTI/File)

Polling today to seal fate of Sonia, Rahul and Rajnath

Its ally Samajwadi Party (SP) is fighting for seven seats -Lucknow, Banda, Kaushambi, Barabanki, Faizabad, Bahraich and Gonda.

06 May 2019 2:06 AM

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